Howth RNLI lifeboat in 10-hour rescue of sinking fishing boat

One Black Ball - Anchored. Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook

One Black Ball - Anchored.

Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook

Freighter stuck in ice…out in front of the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan

sfmariner: There’s is no dinghy more exhilarating than a foiling. And the images prove it.

sfmariner:

There’s is no dinghy more exhilarating than a foiling. And the images prove it.

sfmariner

Primo Cup: Day 1 Photo: Carlo Borlenghi

Primo Cup: Day 1
Photo: Carlo Borlenghi

NASA’s ‘Blue Marble’ goes viral … here’s the flip side

NASA’s ‘Blue Marble’ goes viral … here’s the flip side

2012 US Paralympic Sailing Team

sfmariner: Follow-ups worth seeing: in addition to this pic, I’ve got ANOTHER 90-foot kayak huck, and a time-lapse of the USCG Healy breaking a ship out of the ice off Nome, Alaska.

sfmariner:

Follow-ups worth seeing: in addition to this pic, I’ve got ANOTHER 90-foot kayak huck, and a time-lapse of the USCG Healy breaking a ship out of the ice off Nome, Alaska.

sfmariner

Four rescued from Portage Bay

Members of Australia’s Horsehead Water Ski Club broke their own world record Jan. 27 when 145 water skiers - shoulder to shoulder - stayed up for one nautical mile behind a 114-foot boat.

The record-breaking run, in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, started with 154 skiers, but nine of them fell, according to local reports. The youngest skier was 12, the oldest 60.